Kit-Cat Club
[ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… at least one theatre production in January 1700. Addison described the Kit-Cat as a club ‘founded upon Eating and Drinking’, 2 many members were corpulent, and its revels sometimes extended until three in the morning. 3 It met …
… individual theorized by Thomas Hobbes and Locke, Shaftesbury insisted on intrinsic human sociability: 'If Eating and Drinking be natural, Herding is so too. If any Appetite or Sense be natural, the Sense of Fellowship is the same' ( …